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UK/nʌl/ US/nʌl/ uncommon archaic slang
adjective (1) noun (1)

adjective

1.

lacking any legal or binding force

  • “null and void”
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noun

1.

a quantity of no importance

  • “it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
  • “reduced to nil all the work we had done”
  • “we racked up a pathetic goose egg”
  • “it was all for naught”
  • “I didn”
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Origin

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

Phrases

  • alef null
  • dev null
  • non-null persistent
  • null anaphora
  • null and void
  • null byte injection
  • null character
  • null determiner
  • nulled work

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